LEADER 04151nam 22005895 450 001 9910869156703321 005 20250807152911.0 010 $a9783031606724$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031606717 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-60672-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31506017 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31506017 035 $a(CKB)32575379400041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-60672-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932575379400041 100 $a20240628d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDeliberating War /$fby Patricia Roberts-Miller 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (256 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Roberts-Miller, Patricia Deliberating War Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 9783031606717 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Choosing War -- Chapter 3: Threatening War -- Chapter 4: Factionalizing War -- Chapter 5: Delaying War -- Chapter 6: Framing War -- Chapter 7: Criticizing War -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Militarizing Politics. 330 $aDeliberating War is a thorough, insightful, and well-written discussion of how people in the Western tradition deliberate about war and treat deliberation as war. In discussing various kinds of war, and various kinds of deliberating about war, Roberts-Miller illuminates how and why some of these are more dangerous than others. This book is a must-read for scholars in history, political science, and communication who care about war, democracy, and the relationships between them. - Mary E. Stuckey, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State University This book argues that treating politics as war derails essential democratic processes, including deliberation and policy argumentation, in complicated ways. ?Politics is war? is not always just a figure of speech, but often a sincere expression of how people see disagreement?they mean it literally?and they use it to evade the responsibilities of rhetoric. This book takes the metaphor seriously. Using a series of case studies ranging from the 432 BCE ?Debate at Sparta? to Bill O?Reilly?s recent invention of a ?War on Christmas,? Deliberating War illustrates pathologies of deliberation that arise when a community understands itself to be at political war. This book identifies recurrent rhetorical strategies that constrain or even effectively prohibit deliberation, such as deflecting, reframing, threat inflation, appealing to paired terms, claiming moral license, radicalizing a base. Once communities become persuaded that they are in an apocalyptic battle between Good and Evil, politics as war can quickly become real war?often with far-reaching and catastrophic consequences. Patricia Roberts-Miller is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of many books, including Speaking of Race: Constructive Conversations About an Explosive Topic (The Experiment, January 2021), and Rhetoric and Demagoguery, (Southern Illinois UP, 2019), which was a finalist for the Rhetoric Society of America book of the year). 606 $aCommunication in politics 606 $aCommunication 606 $aInformation theory 606 $aLanguage and languages$xStyle 606 $aRhetoric 606 $aPolitical Communication 606 $aMedia and Communication Theory 606 $aRhetorics 615 0$aCommunication in politics. 615 0$aCommunication. 615 0$aInformation theory. 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xStyle. 615 0$aRhetoric. 615 14$aPolitical Communication. 615 24$aMedia and Communication Theory. 615 24$aRhetorics. 676 $a320.014 700 $aRoberts-Miller$b Patricia$01743647 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910869156703321 996 $aDeliberating War$94171900 997 $aUNINA